Thich Thien-An famous quotes

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In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.
-- Thich Thien-An

#Happiness #Buddhism #Evil
In Zen, actions speak louder than words. Doing is more important than knowing, and knowledge which cannot be translated into action is of little worth.
-- Thich Thien-An

#Knowledge #Knowing #Important
To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.
-- Thich Thien-An

#Kindness #Anger #Buddhism
The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things.
-- Thich Thien-An

#Beauty #Simplicity #Tranquility
So let the mind flow like water. Face life with a calm and quiet mind and everything in life will be calm and quiet.
-- Thich Thien-An

#Life #Water #Mind
If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment.
-- Thich Thien-An

#Contentment #Accepting
Since everything is interrelated, since all things depend one upon another, nothing is absolute, nothing is separate, but all are part of the one indivisible whole.
-- Thich Thien-An
We all shed salty tears and shed red blood. All is one.
-- Thich Thien-An

#Blood #Tears #Red
Each season has its own beauty. To practice meditation is to open the mind so that all of them may be enjoyed. When each season comes we should enjoy it; & when it goes, we should let it go and open our mind to the next season.
-- Thich Thien-An

#Practice #Meditation #Mind

Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!
To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, 'Don't cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.'
If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.
Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby, just as the birth of the adolescent is the death of the child.
Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'
Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.
It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.

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